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Sun 4 Sep, 2011 02:33 pm
My granddaughter and her husband have two children ages three and five. They also own four dogs, two English Massifs and two Dachshunds. When their son was about two years old, he went into the kennel with the male Massif and was bitten. No one saw the incident, but he had marks on both sides of his face, one near his eye.
I heard from someone else that this same dog bit the pool man and I was present at a children’s party when this same dog “nipped” a six-year-old boy leaving scratches on the side of his rib cage.
Now my granddaughter told me that a cat got inside the yard a couple weeks ago and all four dogs attacked the cat and killed the cat. She tried hitting the fence with a stick and yelling at the dogs but they didn’t stop.
Are my granddaughter and her children safe with these animals in the home? They have the run of the house and sleep in kennels in the house. They children play in the yard the same time the dogs are in the yard and let the dogs in and out of their cages and the house.
Terrified Grandmother
It sounds as though the dogs are not safe. Hitting the fence with a stick is pretty damned feeble. If you can't call off the dogs with voice control, and you fear to intervene physically, you're not in control. I suggest that you discuss this as diplomatically as possible, but i also suggest that you do something as soon as you can. It sounds as though the situation is out of control.